A dynamic album that digs deep into the inner workings of downtempo electronics as raw beats, bass, and distortion merge into a synergetic patchwork.
No Eurorack modules were hurt in the making of Icer (so we think), yet they’ve been expertly collected by Saint Petersburg-based Vladislav Green (aka TæT Music) in a 9-pack album for TruthTable. Each track maneuvering through low-end jolts and minute blips and bleeps as evidenced on “Gouache,” a rhythmic cacophony of modular flares. Icer sheds just as much IDM abstracts as it does darker industrial tones as featured on “Document 21″ where shuffling scratches and glitch flicker from all corners. TæT Music continues to unravel exploratory acid tinkering also—”Vane” wiggles about like broken machines interacting with each other from another planet. “Document 28” expands and contracts via hundreds of microscopic synthesizer bits in an emotional sonic array. Where ambient noises drift in far away corridors, “Every Day I Lose My Mind” eventually busts open to reveal its crunchy analog drone where glitch slides across a dystopian landscape of scenic audible beauty. “Half Guesses,” a personal favorite, takes the above-mentioned details and carefully weaves them into one magical synth-based tapestry worth repeated listens to fully dissolve (echoes of early Arovane also bubble to the surface as this track closes.) Icer is a dynamic album that digs deep into the inner workings of downtempo electronics as raw beats, bass, and distortion merge into a synergetic patchwork. If TruthTable’s mission is “plugs, wires, midi cables, and mixing desks channelling inputs from analogue electronic instruments,” then they’ve more than succeeded with signing TæT Music to their growing roster.
Icer is available on TruthTable.
